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title: "Debugging in Visual Basic .NET"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/28/debugging-in-visual-basic-net.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/28/debugging-in-visual-basic-net.html"
published: "2003-07-28T20:52:00"
updated: "2003-07-28T20:52:00"
tags: ["Cool Articles"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "If you're a VB 6.0 developer who recently moved(or is planning to move) to VB.Net, the IDE and debugger are a much stroger and meaner beast than ever before. Debugging in Visual Basic .NET is a nice intro to all the…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# Debugging in Visual Basic .NET

By Roy Osherove July 28, 2003 In [Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles)

**Historical article** · Originally published July 28, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

If you're a VB 6.0 developer who recently moved(or is planning to move) to VB.Net, the IDE and debugger are a much stroger and meaner beast than ever before.

[Debugging in Visual Basic .NET](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbtch_DebuggingVBNET.asp) is a nice intro to all the cool stuff you can now do to debug your application. new C# developers will also find this helpful for their debugging tasks , if they don't mind reading some VB.Net code in the process.

This one goes right into my [.Net debugging resources](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/story/7573.aspx) page.

## More in Cool Articles

[All posts in Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles)

- Jul 28, 2003

    ### [Resolving DataSet Conflicts](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/28/resolving-dataset-conflicts.html)

- Jul 28, 2003

    ### [Broken window theory](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/28/broken-window-theory.html)

- Jul 27, 2003

    ### [Asynchronous Execution in Visual Basic .NET](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/27/asynchronous-execution-in-visual-basic-net.html)

- Jul 22, 2003

    ### [My article on MSDNAA](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/22/my-article-on-msdnaa.html)


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## About the author

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